Successful Quotes

A successful current affairs television show seems to be more and more a cross between a music hall turn and a scene in a torture chamber.

I can't imagine a successful comedy movie without a successful comedy performance at the heart of it.

Sometimes I wonder why I'm a novelist right now. There is no definite career reason why I became a writer. Something happened, and I became a writer. And now I'm a successful writer.

The first successful salesperson was not a man, it was Eve.

If I had to name the single characteristic shared by all truly successful individuals, I’d say it’s the ability to create and nurture a network of contacts.

Direct your energy toward achieving a goal, and tackle the problems with an emphasis on edging closer to a successful result.

There will always be someone with a cuter girl, a bigger car, a bigger home, but that does not matter. You measure your own performance by your own potential. That's what makes a successful person.

You don't need shock value things to make a movie successful.

As much as we don't want to hear it, book marketing is a huge part of becoming a successful author.

Book marketing is a skill: it takes knowledge, effort, and persistence to really be successful.

It's fascinating to imagine two successful writers in one house. But when you think about it, it isn't very unusual. In fact, so many writers have writer spouses.

I have always been convinced that one can be more successful in business with honest, fair and legal behavior than with tricks.

I guess I'm a survivor. There are many of us survivors and any successful woman of my age has somewhat of that in her.

I think a lot of my work has been a weird attempt to liberate myself, but it's not altogether successful.

There is something servile in the habit of seeking after a law which we may obey. We may study the laws of matter at and for our convenience, but a successful life knows no law.

There must be the... generating force of Love behind every effort destined to be successful.

I am not responsible for the successful working of the machinery of society.

The basis of successful relief in national distress is to mobilize and organize the infinite number of agencies of self help in the community. That has been the American way.

There is no formula that I'm aware of for being a successful or fulfilled woman today.

I always run inclusive and successful organisations.

I hope Donald Trump will be a successful president.

I actually came from the fashion side, so maybe I knew more about fashion - and music like hip-hop because I was a DJ - so it was really successful when we mixed it all up together.

As much as Id love to be a successful actor, the thought of being recognised in the street is petrifying.

What can I tell you I continue to be creative, but have only been commercially successful outside of the U.S.

We created a new kind of agency ... We had to retrain our people. But the corporations that will be successful will be those that are willing to change.

I will never feel successful.

The fact that I have been successful merely means that I can write and illustrate in my own way.

I guess that's one of the things about growing up in the fifties - it never occurred to me that you wouldn't be at least as successful as your parents.

Not only is the West so successful economically, but it leads the world scientifically, and culturally.

The idea that the West was economically successful because of slavery, it's just nonsense.

I don't mean to sound immodest, but I never had any doubt that I'd be successful, nor any fear of success. I was raised as a little goddess who was told she would be a star.

And the truth is that if a writer is successful, you gain readers. It benefits all the writers. It's important for all the writers that as many of us as possible be successful.

I think an education is beneficial, but whether it takes an education to be successful in the arts is a whole other question.

People really love 'Madea' movies and get a kick out of them. They're phenomenally successful. People get excited when a new one's coming out.

But I wouldn't recommend writing. You can be a successful writer and never meet another soul. I'm not sure that's a good thing.

One of the main strategies of the successful is that they constantly seek guidance from experts in their field.

You stay successful the same way you became successful.

If you want creative and successful children, resign yourself to jousting with rebels.

The secret to a successful career in virtually any field is good public relations. Forget results. Forget the facts. Perception is all that matters.

I never thought in terms of typing myself, because I wasn't that successful. After an actor has done a few pieces of work, his naïveté is the part of the craft he has to nurture most.

My parents weren't extremely successful financially, but they were happy people. They gave me confidence.

Give me a highly successful unionized industry.

It's funny because when you do become successful, you're forced to look backwards and try to crawl back into the womb where you first started to create.

The thing about writing in America is that writers in America have an arc. You enter writing as a career, you expect to be successful, and really it's the wrong thing. It's not a profession.

I didn't know it was possible to be successful as a writer, so I wasn't afraid to fail.

I scarcely know a professional man I can like, and certainly not one who has been what the world calls successful, that I should the least wish to resemble.

The more successful an organization becomes, the more difficult it is to deal with.

I'm more interested in enjoying my life and looking after my family than being hugely successful.

In the decades to come, the successful places will tend to be the smaller traditional towns and cities with viable farming hinterlands.

I think if you're able to make the music you want and you can do it in the right kind of context, you don't have to be a circus ringleader to be successful.